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OH SB280
Bill
Status
2/12/2014
Primary Sponsor
Shannon Jones
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AI Summary
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Creates the Infant Vitality Grant Fund to award grants to private, nonprofit entities providing community-based services not covered by Medicaid that are intended to reduce infant mortality rates among at-risk populations.
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Requires grant applicants to demonstrate that grant money will supplement, not supplant, existing public and private funding for community-based services.
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Mandates that Medicaid managed care organizations provide case management services for postpartum care to high-risk pregnant Medicaid recipients, including counseling on optimal pregnancy spacing to promote healthy pregnancies and reduce infant mortality risk.
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Requires the Medicaid director to complete an annual report on the effectiveness of pregnancy spacing counseling in promoting healthy pregnancies and reducing infant mortality, with copies provided to the governor, general assembly, and joint Medicaid oversight committee.
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Reappropriates $25,000,000 from fiscal year 2014 unexpended Medicaid funds to the Infant Vitality Grant Fund for fiscal year 2015.
Legislative Description
To require that case management services for postpartum care be included in the Medicaid managed care system, to require the Director of Health to award grants for community-based services that are not covered by Medicaid and are intended to reduce infant mortality rates among at-risk populations, and to make an appropriation.
Medicaid-include postpartum care/grants to reduce infant mortality rates
Last Action
To Finance
2/12/2014